Possible traces of Big Bang discovered

Scientists have discovered possible traces of the cosmic match that ignited the Big Bang and created the universe 14 billion years ago, according to reports today.

Two detectors in Antarctica discovered minute patterns probably created by microscopic energy fluctuations in a glow from primoridal gases.

The glow, called cosmic microwave background radiation, carried an imprint of large waves to the detectors on Earth. The fluctuations probably set the waves in motion and agitated the young universe.

The findings eased recent astronomer concerns that their Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe might be inaccurate.

University of Chicago scientists oversee the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer, a microwave detector at a South Pole research station operated by the National Science Foundation, which made the pattern observations.